I noticed a link at the bottom of RochesterTurning.com that says “Googlebomb McCain.” The idea, spawned on MyDD, is that John McCain is getting way too much good press and none of the bad. I tend to agree by and large, so I looked something up.
Hang on to your hats, folks, but WikiPedia doesn’t list anything about John McCain’s career prior to the Presidential primaries of 2000! Zero, ziltch, nada! And believe me, there’s reason to mention his name from days gone by. You wanna taste? Here you go:
John McCain: Are His Backers Out of Prison?
On Oct. 15, 1982, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act, otherwise known as “Garn-St Germain,” after the principal Congressional sponsors. As a direct result of this disastrous deregulation legislation, within the span of a decade, a small tightly organized network of financial pirates?many with close ties to the Meyer Lansky National Crime Syndicate?would pull off the biggest heist in American history. . . . To untangle the S&L carnage, the Federal government created the Reconstruction Trust Corporation (RTC) and eventually shelled out $200-250 billion in taxpayers’ money, to avert an even deeper collapse of the U.S. real estate and banking sectors.
A handful of the crooks?including Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, and Charles Keating?were imprisoned for their roles in the looting scheme. Briefly, a few members of Congress were spotlighted and slapped on the wrists for their own profiteering and coverup efforts. But the full extent of this criminal looting of America was barely known, and today is largely forgotten. The biggest political beneficiary of the public’s amnesia is John McCain. With the exception of Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s (D-Conn.) own ties to hedge fund bandit Michael Steinhardt, no American politician is as beholden to organized crime as the senior Senator from Arizona and would-be 2004 “Bull Moose” spoiler candidate for the Presidency.
And nary a mention in WikiPedia or the media in years. I seem to recall some minor mention of it a few years ago on Meet the Press, but come on! If you want direct answers to direct questions, you damned-sure know Tim Russert ain’t the man for the job.
So, since ~ as I recently discussed on RT ~ the Dems aren’t going to have the sack of nuts to go after McCain on this, should he win the nomination, perhaps it is our turn to do so?
